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hearken! I hear the distant beat of the hooves of many horses
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For Algonquin, the swiftly rising Fox River hearkened back to memories of damaging flooding in 2013, according to village President John Schmitt.
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But his 23-point, six-rebound performance in Charlotte hearkened back to his 11-year NBA career.
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Petroff reports that the chambers' restored frescoes hearken back to Rome’s pagan roots and early Biblical influences.
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The dark comedy, hearkening back to a simpler time, will feature ensemble members Lance Baker, Kirsten Fitzgerald and Natalie West.
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Opened in the fall in Hillman City, Emma’s felt warm and inviting, hearkening to a time before the encroachment of boxy town houses.
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The explosive growth hearkens back to the 1990s, a decade in which Bend more than doubled its population.
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The Spring 2017 collections, in similar fashion, hearkened to decades past while encouraging the new: presenting bold color, florals, prints and textures that seemed to call to the tropics and suit women who dare and defy expectations.
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Boston would have to win at least two more games before anyone even thinks about hearkening back to the Regrettable Cavs Skepticism of March 2017.
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Origin and Etymology of hearken
Middle English herknen, from Old English heorcnian; akin to Old High German hōrechen to listen, Old English hīeran to hear
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